Cadillac is joining the fray with numerous other luxury automakers with its new CUE advanced infotainment system. CUE – standing for Cadillac User Experience – brings navigation, audio, Bluetooth connectivity, and vehicle settings into one user-friendly, in-car system. The all-new XTS large sedan will be the first to receive the CUE system next year, followed by the new ATS small sedan and SRX crossover.

CUE relies on two screens – an eight-inch touchscreen display at the top of the center stack, and a 12.3-inch LCD display for the information panel – along with a traditional-looking, gloss-black and metal-accented center stack. However, the controls placed on the center stack aren’t your typical physical controls – they’re touch-sensitive, and give a pulsing haptic feedback when touched. Hiding beneath the gloss-black faceplate is a storage bin to hide cell phones, MP3 players, and the like.The new gauge cluster is configurable, and controlled by steering wheel mounted buttons (some touch-sensitive, some normal buttons). Though its three circular gauges look remind us of the similar TFT display in the current Jaguar XJ, the Cadillac’s screen looks far more sophisticated and customizable to the user’s taste.

The central display has been designed with a number of slick new features; including multi-touch, swiping, and proximity sensors that light up icons as your finger gets closer to the screen. Cadillac looked to smartphones and tablets for inspiration for the system, and aimed to make it both simple and intuitive to use but still loaded with all kinds of features for technophiles. The home screen can be reconfigured by dragging icons, and allows for up to five shortcuts at the top of the screen, similar to the dock on an iPhone.In presenting CUE, Cadillac also gave us a good look at both the exterior and the interior for the new XTS sedan, which is expected to make its debut next month at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The interior is otherwise fairly traditional, with a horizontal dash swathed in double-stitched leather and wood trim, a console-mounted shifter, and the 8-inch touchscreen dominating the center stack. The exterior – shown by way of a rendered graphic placed within one of the CUE displays -- looks almost identical to the XTS Platinum concept that debuted at last year’s Detroit auto show.Make sure to check out the video below to see CUE in action.Source: General Motors

Howdy Pete,
Well you can actually upgrade the softwaree on older iPhones to the same software on the new iPhones. Apple was smart that way.
Though, like with a car, the hardware of an old iPhone cannot be upgraded.
But the software - yes it can be upgrade.

I don't normally agree with smelly pete, but I do think he is on to something. There are several vehicles out now with software driven electronics that do not have updated operational software available. Until cars can drive themselves, god forbid, the simplicity in analog gauges and general vehicle information will be more modern 10 years from now than outdated software. Its a timeless design that works flawlessly, regardless of age.

the 3,5,6,7, X3, X5.... and on
are all luxury vehicles. A luxury vehicle sharing with another luxury vehicle is not the same as a luxury model sharing parts with an economy model.
if there's a chevy steering wheel in your caddilac, why are you paying caddilac prices for chevrolet quality?

just looked at the 3 series 5 series and 7series and guess what? all the have the same basic steering wheel....Whats your point? Car manufacturers aren't going to make new steering wheels for every make and model

that's a big reason Caddy hasn't been able to stand toe to toe with the real luxury manufacturers for quite some time.
when your luxury car has the same radio, same steering wheel, same switchgear as a $20k malibu, that's not appealing.

and who's going to be writing software for a 3 year old car, with onboard electronics that don't have enough computing power to do whatever the new fangled tasks are
you can't take an original iphone and upgrade software to make it an iphone4S, same story here with a car's tech.

Just did a search on the Chevrolet Malibu for 2013, and guess what syj? Same basic steering wheel in the ATS as is the Malibu. The interior of this article is of the ATS,an it looks like it was lifted out of SRX!

syj, it is the ATS, for I get updates daily, an 2 of the clips showed the ATS ' interior, an that is exactly what it showed except in brown plastics. As for the steering wheel, I saw the exact same design in the upcoming 2013 Chevrolet Malibu.

Is that why the GErman lux manufacturers stick to the "basics" with their cars? No extra features in Audis right? Only what people need and asked for in Audis. No tech for the sake of tech- never in German cars.

That image is XTS, not ATS. The screen shots and GM provided video are from the XTS. And this steering wheel isnt in any other GM Products. This interior looks more lush than anything Acura is selling. I prefer it over current MB interiors as well.

no offense to gm because it looks quite good, but nobody wants, cares, or will use most of the features to make it useful. If you ask the average person i guarantee a majority of the people would be just fine with knobs buttons and basic navigation. I just don't see the point you can get that same look with buttons and it will always work, at least this one isn't loaded with useless apps that are impossible to use while driving.

Dude, the LFA costs $400k and most of us will never see one. The REAL lexus cars do not have a digital cluster, nor does the LF-A have as many configuration options as this Cadiilac LCD. Not to mention the LF-A doesnt have anything like the touch control system or voice control. The LF-A is a low volume super expensive car that has a SIMILAR LCD cluster but that isnt the same as CUE.

I think the steering wheel is too common, so common its spread to other makes like Chevrolet and some foreigners. If this is the final take on the interior, then they too are like Acura in using too much plastic and not enough leather or wood on the dash board.
By the way if you notice in one of the pictures you see the ATS from a frontal view. It does NOT have the looks to compete with the BMW 3 series. The grill for one is too huge, should have shrunk it for the sport version. For the luxury ok, definitely not sporty!

Wrong again, these systems can be upgraded with new software at any time. Older systems (nav for example) could not. They are made to be updated over time. Only the screens and buttons on the dash are fixed. Automotive tech eventually becomes obsolete, thats the way things work and they always have worked like that. Its what makes people want to get new cars.

the real question is, why do we need tech like this in a car at all? the days of disposable technology with throw away cell phones every year is now expanding to cars
we're going to end up with cars that are mechanically functional, but are technological dinosaurs that don't function as designed. Who wants to have to buy a new car because the operating system of the car's computer is obsolete. By adding all this tech, they're just taking another step towards making cars disposable items.

Dont be stupid. Focus has MFT but it doesnt have haptic feedback or the all digital gauge cluster that is totally customizable. On top of that. Cadillac says this system accepts all types of voice commands so its easy to control with your voice. And even if the Focus does have it the important point is that Lexus, MB, BMW and Audi dont.

good to see GM finally catching up to Ford, Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, Audi
better late to the party then never I guess, when you can get the same feature in a Ford Focus that the Caddy is bragging about... maybe caddy's a little late to the party